Beck and Norah Jones will headline this year’s Beach Road Weekend lineup, the festival announced today. The three-day music festival takes place July 24 to July 26 at Veteran’s Park in...

Daniel Sharkovitz, the Vineyard’s beloved ‘Shark’ and longtime English teacher at the regional high school, died on February 16. He was 68 years old. Mr. Sharkovitz taught at the...

Edgartown residents Tom and Dianne Durawa, who were marooned at sea for weeks aboard the MS Westerdam cruise ship amid global concerns over the coronavirus, are back home on the Vineyard. According...

The National Weather Service has issued a high wind warning for the Cape and Islands from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 7. Winds are predicted to gust as high as 65 mph. The Steamship Authority...

On Monday, Allan Keith was out birding at the Sheriff’s Meadow Sanctuary in Edgartown looking for ducks on the pond when he saw a huge bird overhead. It turned out to be a golden eagle, a rare...

Ward Just, the son and grandson of newspapermen who went on to help define a new era of journalism as a war correspondent in Vietnam and later became a critically acclaimed novelist, died on Dec. 19...

At 85, Jennifer Coor still walks fast, talks fast and thinks fast. That is, unless she is in a grocery store parking lot where she will linger to return shopping carts, not just her own, to ease the...

A recent call to Betty Burton was answered this way. “Oh, one second, my hands are stuck in cookie dough.” Ms. Burton wasn’t just making a few holiday cookies, though. She was...

I live on an Island filled with wooded trails but for years rarely visited them. My children do not like to ruminate while pondering the burnt orange leaves of fall. They prefer sipping hot cocoa in...

Daniel (Shark) Sharkovitz taught English and literature at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School for 38 years. He retired two years ago, and then became a student of writing himself. While...